How to Refer a Youth to New Bailiwick of jersey's Children's System of Intendance (CSOC)

Refer a Youth to CSOC

How to Refer a Youth to NJ's Children'south System of Care (CSOC)

Call the Contracted System Administrator (CSA), Perform Intendance at one-877-652-7624
You lot will hear an automated vocalism-mail system with the post-obit choices:

  • If this is a Life Threatening Emergency, hang up and Dial 911
  • If this an emergency where your kid or some other person'due south safety is at risk, Press 0
  • If you are a parent, legal guardian or youth, Press 2
  • If you are calling from DCPP, the Partition of Child Protection and Permanency, or are calling about a kid who is involved with DCPP, Press 3
  • If you lot are calling most young adult Independent Living programs available through the Adolescent Housing Hub, Press iv
  • If you are a provider, Printing five
  • For all other questions, please stay on the line for an available representative

Please Notation: Y'all can admission Mobile Response past either pressing 0 for emergency and ask for Mobile Response or by pressing 2 to go into the Mobile Response Request Line.

The first person you will speak with at the CSA (Perform Care) is one of their Customer Service Representatives. This individual will ask some bones questions about your family's demographics (proper noun, accost, telephone number, your child's date of birth) as well as questions about your family unit's state of affairs, and your child's needs. The Customer Service Representative is conducting an intake and registering you in the confidential database. Once this bones data is collected the Customer Service Representative volition transfer you to a Care Coordinator.

The adjacent person you lot will speak with is the Care Coordinator who will ask you questions nigh your family'south situation and your child's needs. If you need information nigh mental wellness services that are bachelor for your child and family, the Care Coordinator can refer you to services in your local customs.

If you demand additional supports, such as case management with supportive services for your child, a Needs Assessment will exist arranged. A Needs Assessment is a series of questions about your child'south behavior and your family'south situation. This information is used past the CSA to make up one's mind the type of services that your family unit will receive. After completing the needs assessment, the Local Needs Provider / Assessor faxes the information to the CSA who and then:

  • The Intendance Coordinator volition give yous the proper noun and phone number of one or more local mental health providers for you lot to telephone call and prepare-upward a Needs Assessment. They review it and make a decision on the appropriate level of care your child will receive.
  • If you opt to phone call the local clinician suggested by Perform Intendance to schedule a Needs Assessment, he/she volition contact the CSA (Perform Care) to become Authorization to deport the assessment. This Authority allows the clinician to be paid for the assessment. Once they have this Authority, the local clinician can come to your domicile to come across your family and conduct the Needs Assessment.
  • In the case your child is involved with an independently licensed clinician (i.e. LCSW, LPC, PsyD, Physician), you have a choice to pursue a needs assessment with your local provider instead of the provider suggested by Perform Care. Your existing provider would need to consummate the Clinical Summary Template found on Perform Care'due south website. The Clinical Summary Template can be utilized to make referrals for youth who may be eligible to receive Case Management Services through the NJ Children'due south System of Care. The template is used to decide the intensity of the services the youth and family unit may need to assist in the management of the youth'south emotional and behavioral conditions. If yous need boosted information regarding the Clinical Summary Template, or referring a child for services, please contact PerformCare at ane-877-652-7624 for help.

The types of services that you may receive through Perform Care include:

  • Connexion to a local mental wellness provider for therapeutic behavioral assistance through the CSA (Perform Care) Care Coordination
  • Intensive, team-based Case Management through a local Care Management Organization.
  • Mobile Response provides trained clinicians who can come to your home to help you lot accost the crisis so that information technology does not escalate to a state of affairs where your child is hospitalized or sent out of your home. In some situations, Mobile Response may also exist able to put into place brusque-term services to address the behavioral and emotional needs of your child. You tin then seek longer-term assistance through case management services.

What to Await:

  • All of these services are designed to provide your family with the supports to maintain your child in the home and in school with community-based resources.
  • Your family unit volition exist contacted by the case management bureau that will exist providing aid. Please note: this intake / cess /referral procedure can have 3 to 5 weeks.
  • Data you provide to the CSA is protected under HIPAA, just like your medical records.

Having bug accessing services?
Contact Perform Care to discuss at 1-877-652-7624